"For how else is it to be known that I have found favor
in your sight, I and your people, other than by your going with us? That is
what distinguishes us, me and your people, from all the other peoples on
earth.” Exodus 33:16
Are we really a set-apart people? Do we, as a people, mingle
the Holy with the profane?
I already felt
YHVH's leading on how very, very important the golden calf incident was and the
correlation to today. Everything that
went on then was mixing and mingling...of the Holy and the profane. They took
something they knew (that was pagan in origin) and mixed it with Him. Exodus 32:5-6 says, “And when Aaron saw it,
he built an alter before it (golden calf); and Aaron made proclamation, and
said, Tomorrow is a feast to YHVH. And
they rose up early on the morrow and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace
offerings…” They did all this (using the
culture that they grew up with) for YHVH…not to worship another god. No, they mixed the profane (pagan) with the
Holy. And, what did YHVH say? Exodus32:8-10 says, “They have turned aside
quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten
calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be
thy might ones, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of
Egypt. And, YHVH said unto Moses, I have
seen this people, and behold, it is a stiffnecked people. Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may
wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a
great nation.”
The turning away from Moses (and His Torah)
was the basis of the mixing and mingling. I am in awe of how YHVH shows us the
exact path we are to follow (narrow is the gate – Matt. 7:14) and then shows us
how His people moved away from it (for wide is
the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction – Matt. 7:13). He showed us exactly what (and how)
we are to live. But, even today there are many "golden calves" in
Christianity and few see the correlation. I realize that even then (in Exodus)
that they didn't realize that there was anything wrong with their worship,
anything wrong with the mixing and mingling. After Moses came down from the
mountain, did they really understand and believe that Moses was right and that
they had really done anything wrong? Or, did they think "it's what's in my
heart" that matters? (“The heart is deceitful above all things, And
desperately wicked;
Who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9)
History repeats
itself…again and again. We must test
everything we see and hear against His word and His truth!
I am completely and totally in love with
YHVH!!!! And, I am so very thankful that He loved me first!
Thank you!
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